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Residents threaten lawsuit over blackouts

More power blackouts on parts of South Australia's west coast over the long weekend have triggered threats of protests or legal action against ETSA.

The latest in a string of outages in the past year saw a seven hour blackout hit the Elliston region on Sunday.

Local publican Tim Schlink says that brings the number of blackout hours to more than 32 for this year alone.

He says angry residents have started putting up anti-ETSA signs while the whole town is looking at its options.

"A class action is being talked about, we figure perhaps if none of us pay our bills for the next quarter that might wake them up because what are they going to do, turn the power off again and create more attention to themselves?" Mr Schlink said.

"I guess all we can do now is laugh at them - it's becoming an absolute joke."

ETSA services general manager Sue Filby says affected residents can seek compensation from what has been a weather-related event.

"Right across the state there have been repeated outages for Eyre Peninsula and ETSA understands people feel frustrated but it's been a very hard weekend for people across the state and for our crews who have been out in some pretty strong weather."